The Mercury NewsPresident-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Georgia Congressman Tom Price to be U.S. secretary of health and human services didn’t just send shock waves through California because of his plan to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. After all, Trump had already promised numerous times to “repeal and replace” President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare program on the campaign trail.READ MORE

Fierce HealthcareIt took a road trip in a Tesla model S to reignite Jamin Brahmbhatt's passion for medicine. Like many doctors starting their careers in medicine, the urologic surgeon was initially energized by getting to know his patients and helping them navigate through their care plans. It was red tape, regulations and the “nightmare of tracking electronic records” that led to his burnout, he wrote in STAT. READ MORE

Modern HealthcareVerma arriving at Trump tower Nov. 22 to meet with the transition team. Given her extensive experience reforming state Medicaid agencies, the next CMS administrator could lead efforts to make Medicaid patients more financially responsible for their insurance coverage. President-elect Donald Trump Tuesday announced that Seema Verma, the president, CEO and founder of SVC, a national health policy consulting company that has helped craft Medicaid expansion plans in Indiana[1], Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio, would work under Rep. Tom Price, who currently is a congressman from Georgia but has been nominated for HHS secretary.READ MORE

Fierce HealthcareIn today’s always-on world, your organization is competing for mindshare with programming on TV and Netflix, Facebook posts from friends, images on Pinterest and Instagram, and the noise of everyday life. The problem facing hospitals is how to be heard over the noise and provide information that resonates with patients. You have to ask yourself: Do your communications sound like a college professor (dry and academic) or are they generic and sound like every other hospital in your community? It’s important to find the tone that’s unique to your organization and provides value to your community. The key is making the most of digital media.READ MORE

TNWThe internet can be a beautiful and horrible place at the same time, and it isn't weird to sometimes feel like you want to leave – there's wasn't an easy way out, until now. Swedish developers Wille Dahlbo and Linus Unnebäck created Deseat.me, which offers a way to wipe your entire existence off the internet in a few clicks. When logging into the website with a Google account it scans for apps and services you’ve created an account for, and creates a list of them with easy delete links.READ MORE

Modern HealthcareU.S. Rep. Tom Price was nominated to be HHS secretary by President-elect Donald Trump, according to a person familiar with the decision. Seema Verma, who helped craft Indiana's conservative Medicaid expansion will lead CMS.
Price, an orthopedic surgeon from Georgia, would be a key part of Trump's promise to begin repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act immediately after inauguration in January.READ MORE

Daily MailScientists have created a heat-activated metal penis to help men with erectile dysfunction. Developed by experts at the University of Wisconsin in America, the remote-controlled device lengthens to eight inches when heated to 42 celcius. Surgically inserted in the base of the penis through an incision, the one inch metal coil can be turned on by a remote held over the groin, generating a metal field which triggers a current. The coil then warms the implant, making it expand and fully erect.READ MORE

MedPage TodayHealth policy scholars contemplated the best and worst case scenarios for managing the House's remaining challenge to Obamacare following the Trump administration's unexpected win.
Academics from both sides of the aisle consider whether a majority Republican House, backed by a Republican administration, needs to fight this court battle at all, or whether one of its lasting gripes with the law – payments to insurers to subsidize services for low-income beneficiaries and out-of-pocket costs – could be resolved through legislation instead.READ MORE

HealioThe longer a patient with chronic kidney disease slept, the lower that patient’s risk for end stage renal disease, according to findings presented at the American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week. Researchers said their study emphasizes the need to find ways to improve the sleep of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). “Short sleep and fragmented sleep are significant, yet unappreciated risk factors for CKD progression,” Ana C. Ricardo, M.D., assistant professor of medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, said in a press release.READ MORE

MedPage TodayRecent studies have reopened discussion of a seemingly closed case against earlier use of chemotherapy in prostate cancer. Chemotherapy has an established role in the management of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, but its use in earlier-stage disease has remained controversial. Given the heterogeneous nature of the disease, prolonged clinical course associated with indolent disease, and concern about overdiagnosis and overtreatment, clinicians have reached no consensus about potential patient subgroups that might benefit from earlier use of chemotherapy. Differences of opinion played out again in pro/con articles published online in JAMA Oncology.READ MORE

The San Diego Union-TribuneWith only hours left before picket lines formed in front of Sharp hospitals countywide, the union representing about 4,800 of the health system’s registered nurses canceled its walkout notice Sunday evening. John Cihomsky, Sharp’s vice president of public affairs, said the United Nurses Associations of California decided to restart negotiations that had stalled since Friday. Though it initially refused to say more, Sharp eventually issued a statement refuting reports from some San Diego media outlets that it agreed to a “closed shop” – a term that would have meant all registered nurses at its hospitals would have to pay union dues. Today, about 53 percent have union payments deducted from their paychecks, according to the company.READ MORE